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Sister Marie David Schroeder
...to stop due to eye problems. For the following 12 years, she helped in the Providence Center Gift Shop and also served as the local treasurer in Owens Hall. These jobs ended when she had knee surgery. After Marie David moved from Owens Hall to Providence Hall, she helped with residential services, picking up all kinds of little jobs that she took as seriously as her teaching ministries. In one of her logs, she listed five small part-time jobs and...
Nolan receives alum award for purpose, devotion and leadership from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College
...poor, isolated and oppressed. In 2002, she founded Providence in the Desert to bring English as a Second Language classes to the Mexican immigrants working in the fields and produce packing centers of California’s Coachella Valley. A division of Guerin Outreach Ministries, the ministry works to teach English as a new language to adults in private homes, regional schools and community centers. Sister Carol also shares her love of music by offering music classes to children. Although she is past retirement, she...
Kindness matters
Sister Jane Gibson loves being pushed around the Providence Health Care Center Courtyard. In truth, Sister Jane loves most things. In her eyes, every hydrangea, every ray of sunshine, every vine, and every leaf is beautiful. In her eyes, I am beautiful. I know because she told me so multiple times. Sister Jane and Sophia having fun at Christmas Fun at the Woods. I first volunteered with Providence Teen Ministry at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in the Providence Health Care Center when...
Providence Associate candidate orientation Oct 8, 2016
...Terri Boland, center, chats with those at her table during the orientation. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin set a prayerful tone for the gathering. Saint Mother Theodore sets a good example by wearing her seat belt on the way back from the meeting. Sisters and candidate Providence Associates gather for a social and for prayer the evening before the orientation. Here, Sister Mary Montgomery joins in the prayer. From left, Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara, Providence Associate Candidate Gail Smith, Sister Mary...
2016 Providence Associate first commitment ceremony
...Providence Associates. Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence and friends join hands for the Our Father prayer during the Liturgy. Sister Marsha Speth with her Providence Associate companion Karen Sue Goehl. Providence Associate Louella Dalina in discussion with her sister companion Sister Rosemary Borntrager. New Providence Associate Kelly Meyer and her sister companion Sister Ann Sullivan. Kate Hamilton, center, during the entrance procession. In the foreground is Katrina Welborn and bringing up the banner is Amy Langham. New Providence Associate Jeanne...
Remembering Sisters Regina Therese Shaughnessy and Marilyn Rose Ginder
...Paul and Helena Doyle Ginder. An undated photo of Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder in the classroom. Sister Marilyn Rose entered the Congregation on Feb. 2, 1949. In her 67 years as a Sister of Providence, she ministered for 16 years as a teacher in elementary and high schools in Indiana and Illinois. Sister Marilyn Rose earned a doctorate in counseling from the University of Notre Dame and from 1973-2002, she ministered at the Midtown Comprehensive Mental Health Center, located in...
Remembering Sisters Marilyn Therese Lipps and Concetta Banez
...when she was 2. In 1976, Sister Marilyn Therese began ministering as a director of religious education for parishes located in Lafayette and Plainfield. In addition, in 1988, she became Coordinator of Reception Volunteers and Chaplain to AIDS patients at the Damien Center, located in Indianapolis. In 1992, Sister Marilyn Therese received the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Respect Life Award for her ministry to persons with AIDS, including children. While she retired in 1992, Sister Marilyn Therese continued to volunteer...
Miracle Place celebrates 25 years!
...Barbara added. “We currently have five tutors and 10 students in the learning center. The children are thriving with the individual loving attention they receive.” Sister Maité Rodriguez-Mora with a child at Miracle Place. A ‘Congregation Commitment’ Sister Barbara added Miracle Place is a “Congregation commitment” to those who need help the most. “We serve a wide variety of people without regard for differences,” she said. “It is a way for people of different backgrounds, cultures and social economic statuses...
2026 Winter Used Book Sale
February 19 at 10:00 am – 4:00 pm EST The Foley Room at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free Book lovers of all kinds are invited to our annual Winter Used Book Sale running each day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Thursday, February 19 through Sunday, February 22. This popular event will be held in the Foley Room located across the hall from Linden Leaf Gifts inside...
Volunteer spotlight – Peggy Balensuela
Volunteer Peggy Balensuela enjoys the relationships she has formed with the Sisters of Providence. Here she is with Sister Mary Ann Lechner at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. What made you decide to volunteer? I began to volunteer out at the Woods to get to know the Congregation and the legacy of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and to get to know the individual sisters. I have a passion for history and a career as a teacher, so it seemed natural...
Elizabeth Kuo, beloved “Grandma Kuo” of the sisters in Asia
Grandma Kuo In the center of a 1983 snapshot of 11 smiling Sisters of Providence ministering in Taiwan, sits a serene figure — Elizabeth Kuo — lovingly known as “Grandma Kuo.” A faithful companion and excellent cook, Elizabeth was an essential part of the Providence community for 72 years. Sister Delan Ma met Elizabeth in 1962, and over the years Grandma Kuo told Delan many stories about her life with the sisters. As a 24-year-old widow with two children, Elizabeth...
Sister Ellen Cunningham (formerly Sister Michael Aquinas)
...until illness prevented her daily trek to Guerin Hall. Ellen did manage three sabbaticals in her lengthy career – one in computer programming in Chicago (how’s that for a sabbatical!), the other year split between Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles and the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. A careful look at these seemingly dry facts reveals much about Ellen. Her life was a web of relationships she cherished: Her family, her Sisters of Providence community,...